The World Health Organization (WHO), Qatar Foundation and World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), released a report revelaing that at least a quarter of health and care workers surveyed reported anxiety, depression and burnout symptoms.
Our duty of care: A global call to action to protect the mental health of health and care workers examines the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of health and care workers. The report also offers 10 policy actions as a framework for immediate follow-up by employers, organisations and policy-makers.
Well into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, this report confirms that the levels of anxiety, stress and depression among health and care workers has become a ‘pandemic within a pandemic,’” said Jim Campbell, WHO Director of Health Workforce.
